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Unfold Your Own Myth

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
  
Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?

...

But don't be satisfied with stories, 
how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth, 
without complicated explanation,
 so everyone will understand the passage, 
We have opened you. . . .

From The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

Check out the entire poem at
http://projectbebold.com/archives/722
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Earth's crammed with heaven

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries

From Aurora Leigh, Bk. VII, l. 812-826, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Everything Is Best

When Banzan was walking through a market, he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer.
“Give me the best piece of meat you have,” said the customer.
“Everything in my shop is the best,” he replied the butcher.  “You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best.”
At these words Banzan became enlightened.

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

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Don't Change

I was neurotic for years.  
I was anxious and depressed and selfish.  
Everyone kept telling me to change.

I resented them, 
and I agreed with them, 
and I wanted to change, 
but simply couldn’t, 
no matter how hard I tried.

What hurt the most was that, 
like the others, 
my best friend kept insisting that I change.  
So I felt powerless and trapped.

Then, one day, he said to me, “Don’t change.  
I love you just as you are.”

Those words were music to my ears: 
“Don’t change.  Don’t change.  Don’t change…   
I love you as you are.”

I relaxed.  
I came alive.  
And suddenly I changed!

Now I know that I couldn’t really change 
until I found someone 
who would love me 
whether I changed or not.

The Song of the Bird by Anthony De Mello



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